From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:54:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Relative ls-files
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=BrgZe47Bt5evr_qFzKBL=MY-6NmH22gsRurVV@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D89DCBE.3060400@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Of course ":" has a meaning. "git show HEAD:" lists all files at the
> top-level of the tree at HEAD.

I got excited for a moment... now tested it and there isn't a recursive flag :-(

I've been pining for something easy and intuitive like git ls-files
<treeish>. You can do git ls-files --with-tree=<treeish> but I find it
very counter-intuitive.

Context: in some projects, I need to ask

 - is this file in branch foo?
 - has this file moved in branch foo?
 - what files with extension .zoo exist in branch foo?

and the answer is git ls-files --with-tree=<treeish> | grep <regex> .
But the --with-tree param is so counterintuitive to me that I read the
manpage, everytime.

Not sure whether the bug is in me or in git, but it sure hits some
cognitive dissonance.


m
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